Woven bag



L. s. B'BRNSTEIN.

Woven Bag.

No. 240,645; Patented April 26,1831` im @rf UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL BERNSTEIN, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK.

- WOVEN BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,645, dated April26, 1881.

` Application ined June 2e, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BERNs'rEIN, of `Mount Vernon, in the countyof Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Voven Bags, which improvement is fully set forth in thefollowing specication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure 1 shows my bag partly in side view and partly insection. Fig. 2 illustrates the man ner of weaving a number of bags.Fig. 3 is a section on the line .e w, Fig. 2. Fig. Lis Va section on theline y y, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 shows the arrangement ofthe pockets containingshirrin g-strin gs.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to bags or pouches for holding tobacco, coin, andother articles which are carried on the person, and is applicable alsoto bags orpouches of large size for holding any kind of merchandise.

'It consists in a bag made complete and provided with shirring threadsor strings in the process of weaving, the bags being wovenconsecutively, so that it is only necessary to cut them apart as theycome from the loom, when they are ready for use, the shirring threads orstrings being tied at their severed ends. The fabric is so woven thatthe bags are arranged side by side, each bag occupying the whole widthof the fabric. One edge of the fabric forms the bottoms of the bags, themouths or open ends of the bags being at the opposite edge of thefabric. The fabric is woven double for that 4length which is requiredfor the width of the bag, and then all the warp-threads are woventogether into a single thickness of cloth for a little space, so as toform a web, which separates the adjoining bags, and then the weavingproceeds as before, to form a fabric of two thicknesses, closed at oneedge of the fabric to form the bottom of the bag, and open at the otheredge of the fabric to form the mouth of the bag, as explained before.The shirring threads or strings form parts or" the warp on that side ofthe fabric where the mouths of the bags are formed.

In the drawings the letter A designates a bag constructed according tomy invention, and composed of a fabric which is double, or, in

other words, is made with two thicknesses, b b,

between the sides c of the bag, and between g the bottom e and the mouthd.

The lettersf designate the shirring threads or strin gs, which areinterlaced in the process ofthe weaving with the shuttle-thread near themouth of the bag, and in each thickness of the fabric. There are fourshirring threads or strings, two of them being interwoven with eachthickness of the fabric, inthe manner indicated in the drawings. One oftheshirring threads or strings which are interlaced with facturer, onlytWo shirring-strin gs may be combined with the warp.

`Observing Fig. 2, which represents a piece of bag-fabric as the same isproduced by my method on the loom, the letters A A designate theportions of the fabric which constitute two bags, and the letters c cdesignate webs which unite adjoining bags to each other when the fabricis woven.

I begin the production of the fabric by weaving all the warp-threadstogether into a single thickness across the whole fabric, as at c c,thereby forming the edge of a bag, and then divide the warp-threads soas to form therefrom two sets of warps extending across the width of theloom. This arrangement of the warp-threads is, of course, provided forbefore the weaving commences, in the manner well known to weavers, forweaving two thicknesses of cloth independently of each other, andthrowing the sa-me warps together at the desired intervals, so as toform a single thickness from the united warps for the desired extent inthe weaving. While the whole body of the warps is being operated so asto form two independent bodies of warps, the slied for the passage ofthe shuttle is formed in each of said bodies successively, and theshuttle is passed, observing Figs. 2 and 3, from the right side of thefabric, marked d, across through one shed-say, for example, thelowemedfto the left side, marked c, and in returning IOO -warp threads.

to the right side is made to pass through the shed-say the upper shedofthe remaining The shuttle is next caused to pass again from right toleft through another upper shed made from the said remainingwarp-threads, and when it reaches the side marked e it returns to theright side through the lower shed, and so on, two successive picks beingwoven with each division of the warp alternately, until enough of thedouble fabric has been woven to form the desired width for one bag orpouch, when the whole body of Warps is operated together to form asingle thickness across the fabric, as at a, thereby producing a Webwhich intervenes between the last portion of the double fabric woven andthe neXt portion of double fabric.

The weaving may, of course, be interrupted when a second web, c, ofsufficient width has been woven, thus completing one bag; but I-contemplate producing the bags or pouches with the intervening webs insuccession, asindicated in the drawings, and severing the webs acrossthe center of their width, so as to leave a safe or strong edge on eachside of the bags.

The shirring strings or threads f may, if it is desired that they shouldbe longer than the width of the bag, be drawn out from oft' thewarp-spools so as to produce sufficient slack thread at each web, c, togive the length of shirring string 0r thread desired. rlhe shirringstrings or threads, as well as the other portions of the warp, arecontrolled by the jacquard of the loom,or other devices suitable for thepurpose, in the manner well known to Weavers familiar with Jacquard andother looms. The shirring strings or threads are so controlled by thejacquard or other apparatus used for that purpose that one-half of themis thrown in one body and the other half into the other of the dividedwarp during the time that the fabric is being woven of two thicknesses.

After a bag is severed .from the fabric it is turned inside out, therebybringing the edges ofthe web c in the inside of the bag, as indicated inFig. l.

Ihe bag thus produced is complete without sewing, and without applyingany other fastening device than that obtained by means of the shirringstrings or threads.

I do not lay claim to the inventions described in the several LettersPatent No. 6,566, granted to W. B. Oarlock; No. 24,691, granted to Baarevand Garelly, or No. 160,453, granted A. M. Miner, but

ing part of the warp and woven in the fabric,

the warp ofthe fabric ruiming crosswise, or from side to side of thebag, and the weft or shuttle threads lengthwise thereof, substantiallyas described.

In testimony-that I claim theforegoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal this 25th day of June, 1879.

SAML. BERNSTEIN.

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, Guns. WAHLERs.

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